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The cat killer isn't real???

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serbska · 20/09/2018 14:01

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-45588088

Apparently the cat killer isn't real? How is this?

I thought that there was something secret about the killings that was common to all (so they could be ID) and being kept back form the public (to prevent copy cats).

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thecatneuterer · 20/09/2018 14:03

I also find this very hard to believe.

HeadsDownThumbsUpEveryone · 20/09/2018 14:07

WAIT WHAT?? Shock

How the fuck is that possible! It says that the deaths are the result of scavenging animal attacks and road accidents but prior reports have said multiple cats and even foxes were found with identical injuries? I am also sure I read that some animals had been dismembered and left on doorstops in plastic bags, so hardly the result of an animal attack? Confused

I am not at all convinced that all the cases are not linked and am amazed they said they are recording it as no crime!

ScreamingValenta · 20/09/2018 14:07

Another who was surprised to read this. If wild predation and traffic accidents are responsible, why are these confined to the Croydon area?

TheQueef · 20/09/2018 14:09

It's a bit odd that so many unusual similar injuries are all coincidental.

Vinorosso74 · 20/09/2018 14:12

It's a load of BS! They have evidence a knife/sharp instruments were used. Are there some very smart foxes across the UK? How does it account for the foxes who were victims?
Something is being covered up, the budget is no longer there to investigate or they can't be arsed any longer.

Delatron · 20/09/2018 14:14

I’m guessing they can’t solve the case and don’t want to waste any more resources on just cats.

Of course foxes don’t kill cats on the whole, not in a precise way as reported. We had some incidences around here and the multilated cats were left by schools seemingly on purpose to traumatise kids.

I wish they would be honest and just say they were closing the case unsolved.

Delatron · 20/09/2018 14:15

And yes, the mutialted bodies also left on doorsteps for the owners to find. Clever foxes.

BertrandRussell · 20/09/2018 14:15

The clue is in a pp "I'm sure I read somewhere......"

It'll all be like that. Hearsay, rumour, exaggeration. Glad it's been discounted.

Delatron · 20/09/2018 14:16

Well I didn’t read it somewhere. I spoke to the owners of the cats as they were local....

LapdanceShoeshine · 20/09/2018 14:17

Cat hit by car staggers home, dies on doorstep, fox finds it there?

That part makes sense but apparently rabbits were killed inside their hutches too? That doesn’t Confused

HeadsDownThumbsUpEveryone · 20/09/2018 14:18

I wish they would be honest and just say they were closing the case unsolved.

Exactly this ^ Why bother lying about it.

However I don't understand the thinking they must have regarding it just being animals. The person/persons who are responsible for these murders are now statistically likely to move onto murdering people. Probably quite smugly as they have killed hundreds of animals and not been caught.

It is also pretty patronising to the animals and owners to say it was animals and vehicles that killed them.

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serbska · 20/09/2018 14:18

This article written a few months ago is interesting exploring man or myth:
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/aug/08/croydon-cat-killer-hunt-three-years-man-myth

I can understand that foxes mutilate some already dead cats.

I find it hard to believe that so many cats were hit by cars, crawled home, died on their doorstep and THEN were mutilated by foxes in situ.

And like PP say what about the sharp knife evidence?

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serbska · 20/09/2018 14:20

Also Foxes EAT rabbits, they don't just chew a head off and leave it intact.

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princesstiasmum · 20/09/2018 14:20

Another thread on this,i dont believe a word of this report,
Police dont want to spend anymore money on this,
It isnt just in the Croyden are either,and foxes cant put animals back in cages and close the doors
Why did the vet who said it was done by human hands change his mind?
The heads and tails were sopposedly cut off with a sharp instrument ,clever foxes!!

HeadsDownThumbsUpEveryone · 20/09/2018 14:21

It'll all be like that. Hearsay, rumour, exaggeration.

I maintain there is no smoke without fire. Saying it's hearsay is ridiculous as there was so much evidence of human involvement.

Delatron · 20/09/2018 14:21

Headsdown I was about to post the same thing. Research shows that killers like this eventually move on to humans. It always seemed like the police weren’t taking this seriously. We had a spate of killings in our town so very close to home.

VickieCherry · 20/09/2018 14:22

They've clearly run out of budget. I was always quite surprised the police were involved anyway, given the cuts to their budgets since 2010.

Foxes can mutilate their kills in that way. They don't tend to put them on car roofs or doorsteps though, or travel from one specific area to another to another and carry out the mutilations over a weekend or a few days then move on somewhere else.

Womaningreen · 20/09/2018 14:25

" If wild predation and traffic accidents are responsible, why are these confined to the Croydon area?"

they're not. They started there and I think went as far as Northampton.

I'm afraid I'm not convinced by the reasoning the police have applied here.

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serbska · 20/09/2018 14:34

Forensic scientists at the Royal Veterinary College were commissioned by Scotland Yard and the R.S.P.C.A. to perform postmortems. “All of these injuries so far are consistent with blunt-force injury to the animal,” Dr. Alex Stoll told the BBC. He showed a clump of fur that had been cut neatly across, indicative of a knife or garden shears. “I’d be fairly confident in saying it’s the same person performing these mutilations across these animals.”

www.vanityfair.com/style/2018/05/london-serial-cat-murderer

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Loopytiles · 20/09/2018 14:37

I don’t believe it either, having heard direct accounts from local friends of cats on doorsteps Sad

DaftCat · 20/09/2018 14:37

I don’t believe it’s not a person. A woman at work found her neighbours cat in her garden, next to the swings her two young daughters use. She said the head and tail had been cleanly cut off and the body was ‘displayed’, there’s no way it was a fox.
I live in the area where lots of cats have been killed, I still believe it’s a person, maybe more than one, and I’m still terrified every time my cat goes out at night.
Very negligent of the police to be saying they’re not investigating any more, I imagine the person or persons responsible are having a wonderful day today, they’ve basically been given a licence to continue.

BertrandRussell · 20/09/2018 14:38

"Also Foxes EAT rabbits, they don't just chew a head off and leave it intact"

Really? Have you ever seen a chicken coop that a fox has been in? Tht is exactly wht they do.

HeadsDownThumbsUpEveryone · 20/09/2018 14:41

It's suspicious he was so sure on the matter isn't it. He wasn't the only one saying the cuts were too precise for an animal.

I am also no buying the crap about foxes often bite the head and tails off animals. Confused Someone is actually quoted as saying this is common fox behaviour, since when? Don't foxes normally eat the whole animal??

makeorbreak1 · 20/09/2018 14:46

It is real. I've found one an Boudicca told me two things that is left at every scene so unless these foxes also love Haribos I will still believe it to be a human.

makeorbreak1 · 20/09/2018 14:50

Also the one I found had it's innards laid out into a pattern no chew marks tail was cut off , and a piece of its jaw was cut out with a sharp object and left on its head the cut was so clear to see.